My updated chart suggests that around 7Sep18 somebody important might have made contact with people running our electricity generators. 
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Restricted NSW coal generation & electricity spot price boom
A reader drew my attention to this extension of Chinese ownership of Australian strategic assets. Here is some more perspective on the deal. Port of Darwin all over again.
With a change of the ownership of APA the incestuous little deal between APA & AGL which supplies the gas to all those gas turbines will a new player at the table & with a differrent agenda.
Clearly with AGL closing as many of the Coal Thermal power plants to ramp up the price of gas & electricity; the gas supply has become the fundamentally critical component in the struggle to keep the power grid from a collapse.
Anyone who remembers the Longford Gas Explosion & the pain & difficulty it caused in Victoria [ when they still had Hazlewood] can easily understand how the gas reticulation network operation is now far more vital in the maintenance of the society & economy.
Why would any responsible government allow such a company to be sold into foreign hands?
How much would the $A be worth if an open ended grid collapse took place?
How much would our other national resource assets be worth at the exchange bargain that would follow?
How damaging could this scenario be?
More Penguin panics – now “tragic”
A Mass Grave of Hundreds of Mummified Penguins Has Been Found in Antarctica A tragic case. 11Sep18
www.sciencealert.com/mass-grave-hundreds-ancient-mummified-penguins-discovered-antarctica-adelie-climate-change
Hidden Penguin Mega-Colonies Discovered in Antarctica 2Mar2018
news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/03/adelie-penguins-colonies-discovered-antarctica-environment/
Penguin disaster as only two chicks survive from colony of 40,000 13Oct2017
www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/oct/12/penguin-catastrophe-leads-to-demands-for-protection-in-east-antarctica
One certainty out of this news in an increased UHI (urban heat island) at Brisbane Airport and increased non-climatic warming in the station data.
First look at Brisbane Airport’s new runway 6Sep18
www.9news.com.au/2018/09/06/16/45/first-look-brisbane-airport-runway-project
OT towards the end of September on LandLine BOM predicted a dry October and put up a chart which had for SE Qld 20% chance of getting average or above above rain. Using the tail of the probably curve this meant about a fifty percent (peak of curve) chance of getting about 60% of average ie in my area about 60mm. Another big fail for BOM. My rainfall for the month is 370mm or close to 3.7 times average. Need another 68mm to reach an 125 yr all time high set in 1972. Some places in SE Qld may have reached all time highs as on the two days we got 65&66mm some places were getting over 150mm. It seems that October was the breaking of the drought in many areas of NSW and Qld.